Pamela Jooste

Pamela Jooste (born Cape Town) is a South African novelist. Her first novel, Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter, won the 1998 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa, and the Sanlam Prize for Fiction.^[1]

She worked for Howard Timmins publishers, and BP Southern Africa.^[2] She is married and lives in Cape Town.

Works

• Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter, Doubleday, 1998, ISBN 978-0-385-40911-7
• Frieda and Min, Doubleday, 1999, ISBN 978-0-385-40912-4
• Like Water in Wild Places, Doubleday, 2000, ISBN 978-0-385-60133-7
• People Like Ourselves, Doubleday, 2003, ISBN 978-0-385-60540-3
• Star of the Morning, Doubleday, 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-61090-2

References

1. http://www.randomstruik.co.za/about-the-author.php?authorID=4764
2. http://pamelajooste.book.co.za/about/

External links

• "Sonja Loots in conversation with Pamela Jooste", LitNet, 2006-09-09
• "Pamela Jooste & Amanda Patterosn", Writers Write, 28 February 2007
• "Whose Dance?: A Review", Southern Africa Report, Vol 14 No 2, March 1999, Carolyn Bassett